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Our team members


Bjarne Hansen
Director at Bergen Center for Brain Plasticity (BCBP), Haukeland University Hospital
Professor, Centre for crisis psychology, University of Bergen 
E-mail: bjarne.kristian.aaslie.hansen@helse-bergen.no



Gerd Kvale
Researcher at Bergen Center for Brain Plasticity (BCBP), Haukeland University Hospital​
Professor in clinicial psychology, University of Bergen
Senior advisor at the 4-day treatment clinic


Thröstur Björgvinsson, PhD, ABPP
Director, Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program, McLean Hospital
Co-Director, Psychology Training, McLean Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 
E-mail: tbjorgvinsson@houstonocd.org



Lars-Göran Öst
Professor emeritus, Departement of Psychology, Stockholm University 
E-mail: ost@psychology.su.se



Kristen Hagen 
Psychologist, 
Associate Professor at University of Trondheim (NTNU) 
E-mail: kristen.hagen@ntnu.no 



Anders Lillevik Thorsen
Post.doc, psychologist, Bergen Center for Brain Plasticity (BCBP), Haukeland University Hospital
E-mail: anders.l.thorsen@gmail.com



Olga Therese Ousdal 
Medical doctor, Departement of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital
E-mail: olgatherese.ousdal@gmail.com



Odile A van den Heuvel
MD PhD Amsterdam Medical Center, VUmc, Department of Psychiatry


Jan Haavik
Medical doctor, The Departement of Biomedicine, Haukeland University Hospital.
Professor, The Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen





James J. Crowley, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Genetics & Psychiatry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Clinical Neuroscience 
Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden



Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, McLean Hospital
Chief, Center of Excellence in Depression and Anxiety Disorders, McLean Hospital
James and Patricia Poitras Chair in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital
Director, Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory, McLean Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
E-mail: KRESSLER@MCLEAN.HARVARD.EDU



Stephanie Le Hellard
Professor in Human Genetics, Haukeland University Hospital
Professor, Universitety of Bergen
E-mail: Stephanie.LeHellard@uib.no



Last updated 7/6/2023